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. Patented 11911.27, 1883.

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EXTENSIBLB REGBPTAGLE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT COLLIN, OF ROUEN, FRANCE.

ExTl-:NslBLE REQEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,030, dated February 27, 1883. Application filed September 4, 1882. (Model.) Patented in France October 5, 1881, No.1^l5,159.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT COLLIN, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at Rouen, in the French Republic, have invented certain new and useful improvements in a new system of pasteboards with slides and tippings, to be used as portfolios, or for containing rolls of variable dimensions. This new system is applicable to every kind of cartons, boxes, trunks, coffers, portmanteaus, carpet-bags, 85o.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeinghad to the accom panying drawings, and to letters or ligures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

' The object of this invention is to provide a receptacle that in its construction will form a receptacle of varying capacitythatis to say, ot' such a construction as to adapt its capacity to be increased or decreased according to the volume of the material to be stored, packed, or placed therein orV held thereby. Such a receptacle may be employed for varying purposes. It may be used as a portfolio or as a temporary binder, or it may be used as a traveling satchel, bag, or trunk, or as a means for baling goods, or as a packing-box, and in either ofthe latter cases will serve all the purposes of what is technically termed a knockdown 7 box or crate, with this dii'erence, that it will occupy less room than the usual crates or boxes of this class when knocked down or folded.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, showing the device in its simplest form unfolded and ready to be formed into a box or receptacle. Fig. `2 shows the same formed into a box or receptacle ready for the application of the lid. Figa?) shows the same entirely folded. Fig. 4 is a section taken on line .t of Fig. 3. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are sections of the lid and bottom, showing various methods of connecting the fastening devices. Figs. 8 and 8a show various means ot'conneeting the sides and sections together. Fig. 9 is a plan view, showing unfolded a receptacle provided with sectional end and side sections. Fig. 10 shows thesame by a like view partly formed into a box or receptacle. Fig.1l shows the same in perspective complete except the application of the lid or cover, and Fig. l2 shows the same completed in elevation.

In the above-described tigures of drawings like letters indicate like parts.

The essential feature of this invention cousists in forming a receptacle by means of sides and ends dexiblyjointed to abottom, B,1`n combination with a lid or cover, O, adapted to be moved upon flexible fastenings F, b v means of which the receptacle is closed and its parts secured together. The sides S S and ends E E of such a receptacle may be formed of one or more sections adapted to be folded one upon another, and said side and end sections may be united together at the corners in any desired manner when the receptacle is to be enlarged.

As shown in Figs. l, 3, 4., and 9, the device may be used as a portfolio, and the cover Gis or may be provided with a pocket and with means for holding ,pencil and pen or other writing material, and the bottom B is or may beprovided with a receptacle for aninkstand. These devices may be arranged in any other suitable or preferred manner-as, for instance, on the sides or ends-and are left to the judgment and taste ofthe manufacturer.

To the bottom B are secured the end sections, E E, and the side sections, S S, in such a manner as to adapt them to fold upon said bottom B-one upon another. These end and side sections, when the device lis to be employed as a portfolio or a temporary binder or file-holder or means for baling` goods, are or may be made ot' some exible material, such as leather or rubber or atextile, and when the latter is used it is or may be made waterproof. If the deviceis used as a packing-box, the said end and side sections are or may be made of any suitable rigid material, such as pasteboard or wood or other like material. These end and side sections may be united together' by any convenient means. They are or may be provided with eyelets e and laced together by means of lacing-cord c, or other cord. or string, or tape; or said sections may be provided with studs or buttons b and buttoned together, or ith hooks la and hooked together, as shown in Fig. 8. lf, however, the device is employed for shipping goods, the fastenings of the end and side sections are or IOO should be so arranged as to prevent their becoming accidentally or otherwise detached. In this case I preferably unite them by fastening devices applied to the inside-such, for instance, as screw-eyes s, and a rod, r, passing through them, as shown in Fig. 8a; or other interlocking fastening devices may be employed.

The device may be made indefinitely extensible by the use of a corresponding series of end and side sections adapted to fold one upon another.

As shown in Figs. 9, 10, 11, and 12, the ends E E and the sides S S are composed, as shown, each oftwo sections-namely, the end sections, 1 2 and 3 4, and the side sections, 5 6 and 7 8- 'iorming what I may call a two-story receptacle. Said sections l 2 and Sand 56 and 78 may each be made of one piece of flexible material, as shown at X, Fig. 9, where the dotted line indicates the line of folding, or they may be made in two sections of like or a rigid material-and laced together, as shown at Y; or the said sections may be hinged together, as shown at Zin said Fig. 9. In fact, I do not desire to limit myself to any specific means for uniting the ends and sides to one another or for uniting their several sections with one another, as these means will depend upon the uses made of the device.

I have so far described the construction of the main part of the device, and will now describe the manner and means for closing the same by means of the lid or coverC and snitable fastening devices.

To the bottom B are permanently' attached the fastening devices F, thernature of which will depend upon the uses made of the extensible holder. These fastenings may be ribbons, or tape, or strings, or cords, or thongs, or rubber bands when the device is used either as a portfolio, tile-holder, or temporary binder. NVhen used as a traveling bag or trunk such fastenings may consist of leather straps, and when used as a packing-box or baling material of strong ropes or cords. It is essential, however, that the fastenings should be sufficiently iiexible to fold togetheror to adapt them to be hunched together when the device is knocked down or folded.

The cover U is adjustable upon the fastening devices-that is to say, in order to adapt the device for extension and contraction the cover G should necessarily be adapted to assume the necessary relative position to the other parts of the device. To this end the fastening devices may be passed through grooves or passages p, formed in the thickness, ot' the material of which the cover is made, or said cover may be provided with loops Z, or simply With guides g, as shown in Figs. 5, 7, and 6, respectively. Wherever practicable, I prefer to form grooves or passages p in the locks when the device is used as a traveling bag or trunk.

If desired, the fastening devices may be adjustably connected with the bottom B-that is to say, they may be connected to said bottom in the same manner they are connected to the cover C, and thus drawn through both cover and bottom and tied, buckled, or other- Wise fastened upon any desired point of the package. It is evident that such a holder is capable of being ornamented by any of the various means known in the arts. Itis deemed unnecessary to describe the operation of this extensible holder or the manner of extending the same or increasing its capacity, as itis thought these will be readily understood by any one from what has been said above and by an inspection of the accompanying two sheets of drawings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. An extensible receptacle composed of a bottom, sides, and ends iiexibly connected thereto and detachably connected with one another, in combination with flexible fastening devices and a lid or cover adapted for adjustment upon said fastening devices, and by means of which the receptacle is closed, substantially'as and for the purposes specified.

2. An extensible receptacle compose l of` a bottom. sides, and ends connected therewith and adapted to be folded together and upon one another and the said bottom, and means, substantially such as described, for uniting said folding end and side sections, in combination with iiexible fastening devices rigidly connected with said bottom and a lid or cover adj ustably connected With these fastening devices, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

3. In an extensible receptacle, the combination of the bottom B, the fastening devices F, attached thereto, the sectional folding and detachable ends, and sides E E and S S, and the cover O, all constructed and arranged for cooperation substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I IOO have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of 12o June, 1882.

ALBERT COLLIN.

Witnesses Louis CoUssANUT, FREDERIC MATRAY. 

